· Private foundation
Winifred Stevens Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k58 grants · $5.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,820,000 |
| UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS | $380,000 |
| GENERAL CONFERENCE HEALTH MINISTRIES | $270,000 |
| LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA | $200,000 |
| HOLBROOK INDIAN SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| PINE FORGE ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| EQUALITY NOW INC | $145,000 |
| ASAP MINISTRIES INC | $130,000 |
| OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC | $125,000 |
| POTOMAC CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS | $125,000 |
| HOLBROOK INDIAN SCHOOL | $123,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH | $121,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Winifred Stevens Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ADADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL7× · 2018–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +20%
- WWWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +4%
- LGLINK GLOBAL7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- HFHARBOR FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue -155%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $800k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 164 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESTORE A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds LINK GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Light Bearers Ministry ↗
- Who funds HARBOR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Adventist Health International ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds ASAP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITESIDE MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANASSEH'S CHILDREN DBA UJAMAA-AFRICA ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HOPE ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Asi Missions Inc · Versacare Inc · Adventist Community Services North America Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Sffc Foundation Inc · D&E Foundation · Popoff Family Foundation · The Hernan & Orfi Barros Foundation · The Elqui Valley Foundation · Byron Robinson Educational Foundation Inc · Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation · Peter Alfond Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Winifred Stevens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winifred Stevens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
- Washington Adventist University: 4% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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